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Scientists are frantically trying to re-establish the vital monitoring that has been situated on the volcano since 1958 after a volcanic eruption in Hawaii...

With images of the violent insurgency in Washington still fresh in Americans' minds, newly confirmed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin took the unprecedented step of...

According to new rules approved by Congress, companies critical to US national interests will now be required to report when they are hacked or...

Brown, Ketanji Jackson does not have the typical background of a US Supreme Court justice. Not just because she's a woman of African-American descent. While many...

President Joe Biden’s first flight on Air Force One this month was only 25 minutes long. The President was headed home to Delaware for...

Night after night, tear gas has hung like a cloud over the Sterling Square Apartments, just across the street from the Brooklyn Center Police...

Pfizer reported that earnings and sales more than doubled in the most recent quarter, and it raised its full-year outlook, owing largely to its...

The preseason is called that for a reason. Both teams are testing lineups and systems, gradually working their stars into game shape, and taking...

The United States Senate has averted a government shutdown by passing a stopgap funding bill that also includes billions of dollars in emergency aid...

President Joe Biden is on the verge of reviving the Iran nuclear deal. The most recent alleged Iranian murder plot isn't helping matters. The news...

Julie Cohn was fully immunized when she went to her 12-year-old son's basketball game in March. He requested that his mask be removed halfway...

A Brussels court has ruled that Belgium's failure to meet climate targets is a violation of human rights, in the latest legal victory against...

Following this week's horrific mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, some expected the National Rifle Association (NRA) to cancel its annual...

According to the most recent data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, most people in the United States now live in...

The federal government spent $660 billion more than it collected in tax revenue this March, the Department of Treasury said Monday, as the Biden...

Pidgeon Pagonis, an intersex activist, noticed last week that the TikTok hashtag #intersex was not working. They couldn't click the tag on one of...

US diplomats and troops in Iraq and Syria have been targeted in three rocket and drone attacks in the last 24 hours, according to...

More than 97 percent of California is experiencing "severe" drought conditions, raising the prospect of difficult agricultural decisions in a state that produces one-quarter...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration on Tuesday in response to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants entering the United States through...

Shortly after President Joe Biden announced new sanctions on Russian banks and elites on Thursday – but not on Russian President Vladimir Putin –...

President Biden announced a new trade agreement with 12 Indo-Pacific nations on Monday, warning Americans concerned about high inflation that it will be "a...

The CIA's No. 2 official made it clear in a recent closed-door meeting with leaders of the agency's counterterrorism center that fighting al-Qaida and...

Brittney Griner, the detained American basketball star, pleaded guilty to drug charges in a court near Moscow on Thursday, according to her lawyer. "I'd like...

A Chicago publicist for hip-hop artist Kanye West visited the suburban home of Ruby Freeman, a terrified Georgia election worker who was facing death...

Since the beginning of the pandemic, a sizable minority of coronavirus infections have resulted in long COVID, a perplexing collection of lingering and often...

Some of the world's most protected forests are emitting more carbon than they absorb, owing to factors such as logging and wildfires, according to...

Floodwaters raced down streets and engulfed lawns along Florida's southwest coast Wednesday, courtesy of historic Hurricane Michael. Ian roared closer to the expected landfall...

Last year, Fed officials were wary of overreacting to one-time price increases by raising interest rates and cooling the labor market if supply-chain bottlenecks...

The United States and Ukraine have thwarted Russian President Vladimir Putin's efforts to distort the narrative of his brutal war, but they are still...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson clashed Monday with a lawyer for a student group seeking to end affirmative action in college admissions, questioning whether the...

Concerns about escalating violence during contentious rallies in Portland, Oregon, have been heightened by a gunfight last week between far-right demonstrators and anti-fascist counter-protesters. The...

Immigration enforcement arrests in the United States have dropped dramatically in the last year as the Biden administration shifted its enforcement priorities to focus...

A helicopter crash in the Alaskan wilderness left five people, including one of Europe’s richest residents, dead after the chopper went down on Saturday...

It's one thing to have to overcome the odds in order to win a gold medal for your country; it's quite another to have...

AstraZeneca Plc's antibody cocktail was only 33% effective in preventing symptomatic Covid-19 in people who had been exposed to the virus, failing a key...

President Biden arrived in Israel on Wednesday to begin a trip to the Middle East that his administration hopes will strengthen US-regional ties but...

The Biden administration's new $500 million military contract with Saudi Arabia, critics claim, goes against the spirit of the White House's public policy of...

One of the busiest trade ports on the US-Mexico border remained effectively closed Wednesday as frustrations and traffic jams grew over Texas Gov. Greg...

After New York Attorney General Letitia James released a damning report detailing 11 women who had been sexually harassed by Andrew Cuomo, the Empire...

We are at a point in time when it is worthwhile to take a step back and look at the current state of affairs...

On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed the Equality Act for the second time in two years. The first time around the bill was...

To buy flood insurance, contact your local insurance agency or company, the one that sells your property or car insurance. Flood insurance is also...

Tesla owners can purchase the company's "full self-driving" software for $10,000, but they may have to give up their privacy in the process. According to...

If you are among the workers who live in fear of the stacked blocks in your Microsoft Outlook calendar detailing back-to-back meetings, this new...

Allen Weisselberg, Donald Trump's chief financial officer, is expected to plead guilty to tax violations Thursday in a deal that would require him to...

During 2021, cryptocurrency companies bombarded Londoners with a record number of advertisements on public transportation, fueling calls for a ban to prevent people from...

The National Intelligence Council recently released the Global Trends Report 2040 and it describes in bleak terms what's ahead: The impacts of climate change combined...

An unusual security breach of an election system in a rural Colorado county has triggered a criminal investigation and prompted state authorities to suspend...

Democrats in Congress are negotiating a comprehensive budget reconciliation package that will serve as the centerpiece of President Joe Biden's domestic agenda. The 10-year spending...

Home sales are slowing as buyers struggle to find homes within their price range. The number of existing home sales has fallen for three months...

Several of the country's largest labor unions are suing over President Joe Biden's vaccine and testing mandates, not to overturn them, but to broaden...

According to a congressional report published Tuesday, Emergent BioSolutions was forced to discard or destroy up to 400 million coronavirus vaccine doses between March...

In what could be the biggest head-turning move so far in Biden’s presidency, the new President has vowed to legalize over 11 million immigrants...

Migrant families who were returned to Haiti by the US after attempting to enter the country from Mexico are outraged at their treatment and...

A senior Republican senator said he and his colleagues could support an infrastructure bill of around $800 billion, underscoring GOP interest in a bipartisan...

According to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the proportion of coronavirus cases in the United States caused by the...

The first two minutes of the Netflix documentary "Untold: Operation Flagrant Foul," about former NBA referee Tim Donaghy, should raise eyebrows and cause viewers...

The president has had to deal with a barrage of right-wing attacks, and Republicans may find that the formula is working in their favor. Joe...

Amazon installed a slew of metal lockers outside a 2019 Fresno, California, gas station convenience store so customers who didn't want packages delivered directly...

Heather Mars-Martins and her family would dive off the coast of Westerly, Rhode Island, to catch quahogs and clams, native to the eastern shores...

Republicans are vying for control of Congress. Just don't ask them what they plan to do if they win. Look no further than battleground North...

With a new home and a new $5 billion stadium already under their belt within the last 5 years, the LA Rams have taken another...

Hundreds of teenagers were celebrating the start of homecoming weekend and their high school football team's dominant win just hours earlier around a bonfire...

The European Union's drug regulator approved Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine for use on children aged 5 to 11, paving the way for shots to be...

In an effort to keep the controversy surrounding his godmother's treatment of a Black advocate for victims of domestic abuse from overshadowing his visit...

Republican Robin Vos, Wisconsin's longest-serving Assembly speaker, has presided over efforts to restrict abortions, weaken unions, expand gun rights, and oppose COVID-19 mandates. Despite...

According to analysts, a recently approved Chinese tax could deal a severe economic blow to the Nicolás Maduro regime by nearly doubling the cost...

In an odd way, the Portland Trail Blazers have become the poster child for NBA stability over the last half-decade or so. They had...

Britain's prime minister accused China of "gross rights violations" against the Muslim Uyghur minority Friday after Beijing aimed sanctions at UK lawmakers and lobby...

The Food and Drug Administration's independent advisory committee will meet in open session on Friday to review the most recent data submitted by Pfizer...

On Tuesday, a California libertarian group filed a legal challenge to President Joe Biden's plan to cancel student debt, calling it an illegal overreach...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has forced Americans to reconsider their energy options. A secure energy future for the United States and its allies has...

The trial of former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter, who was charged in the death of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man killed...

The Republican candidate for US Senate in New Hampshire will be a far-right Republican who supports Donald Trump's election fraud lie and has promised...

New York City will launch the nation's largest and most comprehensive workforce development program for at-risk LGBTQ youth this summer. NYC Unity Works, a $2.6...

The axiom that adversity reveals the truth about people has always had flaws, and it has been especially flimsy during the pandemic. If someone...

As the year 2021 draws to a close, a wave of book bans has spread surprisingly quickly among state and local officials. Fortunately, if...

Derek Chauvin invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to testify on Thursday and the defense rested its case as the trial of George Floyd's...

As the looming threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine rages on, the Russian military claimed Monday that five "saboteurs" were assassinated after crossing...

Joe Biden began his presidency with a promise to advance equity, which entails favoring certain races and ethnicities over others in order to reduce...